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Jackson's arguments against the process came back to life in 1876, when New York's Democratic Governor Samuel J. Tilden won the popular presidential vote with 4,287,670 ballots (50.9%). Even so, a special commission awarded the electoral votes of four disputed states to his opponent, Ohio's Republican Governor Rutherford B. Hayes, who thereupon squeaked into the White House by one electoral vote. Newspapers promptly pilloried Hayes as "His Fraudulency...
...others: Air Force Major General W. J. Crumm, Marine Major General Bruno A. Hochmuth, and Air Force Major General Robert F. Worley...
Advertising men sometimes seem as eager to sell themselves as they are to promote their clients' products. A notable and reticent exception is Norman Hulbert Strouse, 61, chairman and for seven years chief executive of J. Walter Thompson, who quietly announced last week that he was going into early retirement. Closing out a 40-year career with the world's largest ad agency, Strouse wanted no fanfare and got none. From his corner office he sorted out personal belongings, which include 100 owls in a collection started in the days when a wise old owl was J. Walter...
...Chips. His mode of departure reflected his belief in calm continuity. Well aware that ad agencies often slow down when their bosses grow old and linger too long, Strouse began planning his own retirement three years ago. He tapped Dan Seymour, a one time soap-opera actor who revitalized J. Walter's television department, to become president. Now Seymour takes full charge of a shop that, thanks to Strouse, is not about to lose its No. 1 ranking. Billings have more than doubled since Strouse was named president in 1955, and currently exceed $600 million. With blue-chip clients...
...agency was already on top of its field 13 years ago when Strouse moved from the Ford account-still J. Walter's biggest-into top management. Strouse, who was always more of an administrative man than a creative whiz, streamlined the agency and made it more profitable. "My basic thing," he recalled last week before leaving, "was to build a modern management structure." This he accomplished by separating senior executives from day-to-day operations so that they could think and plan better. He also introduced computerized operations wherever possible, cut back on the clerical help they replaced...